1st Edition
Family Therapy Beyond Postmodernism Practice Challenges Theory
By Carmel Flaskas
Copyright 2002
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Postmodernist ideas are widely used in family therapy. However, it is argued that these ideas have their limits in meeting the richness and complexity of human experience and therapy practice. Family Therapy Beyond Postmodernism examines postmodernism and its expressions in family therapy, raising questions about: * reality and realness * the subjective process of truth * the experience of self.... Read more
Connections in Postmodern Times - An Introduction. The Shape of Postmodernism. Social Constructionist Ideas and the Narrative Metaphor. The Question of Reality and Realness. Truth as a Process. The Narrative Self and the Limits of Language. Postmodernist Limits and Intersecting Psychoanalytic Ideas. Attachment and the Unconscious. Transference, Projective Identification and Time. Further Thoughts on the Therapeutic Relationship. Concluding Comments.
Biography
Flaskas, Carmel
'This is a very valuable contribution to the literature on family therapy. It is timely, clearly and engagingly written, and it advances family therapy by clarifying concepts which have been very problematic, and offering new ways forward.' - Stephen Frosh, Birkbeck College, London
